Friday, February 5, 2016

Brown, brown, brown...

The color of the month at http://superscrappy.blogspot.com/ is brown.
Brown.
It's winter, the ground is brown, the grass is brown, the trunks are brown, the snow is brown.

So out came the brown scrap bin and I began to seek strips for strata. It's apparently the year of the strata quilts for me.

I was going to continue some blocks I made earlier in blues, and wrote a tute for:
(Click Here or look on tutorials page) but I couldn't remember what size square ruler I used, so I made them from the largest I own, a 15". I didn't go just look it up. Of course they are much bigger than my others... so I thought, okay, 12 of these 20" blocks will make a good sized quilt in rainbow colors.

I finished the blue one but I did not like it.

Too dull. In using the fabric strips I didn't love, I made a block I didn't love.

However...

In for a penny... so this time I made a brown one to go with it. For some reason I like them both better.
They might work out. And I can quilt as you go a big block like this, and try a new to me joining method.
While I was at it, I made the other stratavarious blocks and the diamond blocks. I'll show those in coming weeks along with the sofa, TV and dress.

Together they do look good. I actually like both of them. We have more white than brown right now. Grey is the color I often associate with winter because we see so much grey sky on those dreary, snowy days.

Love your strata process--and I like them together too--funny how separately some blocks just sit there and when you join them with others they S I N G!! (And not "the blues" either lol) hugs, Julierose

You are right, the blues look better with the Browns added. Cole is definitely the alpha dog in your household. What about you? I'm glad your lists are helping you each day. Makes for a more ordered life, or so it seems.

Its really hard to judge a quilt like this until its complete. A lot could happen in the making of the rest of the blocks. I'm not a fan of brown either but I seem to have tons of it in my scrap bins? Thanks for linking up at Podunk Pickins.

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